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For several years my work flow has been to have feeds in Feedly and save articles to Pocket to read later.

With @mozilla killing Pocket, I'm wondering if @wallabag would actually serve as a replacement for both.

I'd be curious to hear any comments or experiences from folks. I'll be trying it out this week regardless, but I'd still love any tips given what my work flow has been.
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A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search - karakeep-app/karakeep
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So, Fedi distributed brain, what are people settling on for Pocket replacements?

I've put my self in an awkward position, but one that's been very smooth for me for several years. I use Feedly to scroll RSS feeds, and *had* perfect integration to save things to Pocket.

I'm going to have to look both at RSS aggregators and "read it later" apps to see where I want to go, but definitely a self-hosted FLOSS solution.

Last week, Mozilla announced their plans to shut down Pocket.

I spent the weekend exploring alternatives to see which ones match my needs and wrote about what I found in my blog.

A lot of options! And while not all met my needs, they may be good options for you.

hamatti.org/posts/mozilla-is-s

Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer. · Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, what next?
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Hello everyone!

We are so happy to welcome you here.

For your information, we are working on the CSV import from #Pocket. We will release a new version in coming days 🚀

About the hosted version on wallabag.it, I hope it will be available today or tomorrow 🔥

You can join us on matrix to discuss with us and other wallabag users: matrix.to/#/#wallabag:matrix.o

Have a nice day!

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@macosken,
@pocket_recommends@mozilla.social is shutting down. My new #ReadItLater service of choice is @instapaper, who i’ve already asked a few questions of, and they responded almost instantly. @ChanceHMiller, Did you see this news? Honestly, it makes me quite sad. However, Instapaper did say that they plan to bring back some features that have been deprecated for now. They want to make them better than they were before, such as the friends feature. This is a company I will definitely support when I’m able.

I'm once again looking for a read-it-later/article archive tool. I think I've tried them all by now and I'm amazed that for such a basic task there's no good solution. I think my demands are very reasonable:

– article content extraction (not just bookmarks) and comfortable reader
– full text search over the entire archive
– website and Android app with synchronization between them
– not a whole lot of random unrelated features like todo lists or whatever thrown in for no reason

I was using Pocket for many years and even paid for the "premium" (which basically got me a few extra fonts because the "premium" features like tag suggestions didn't work), however Pocket got worse and worse at article extraction, to the point where it just opened to website instead of showing the extracted text for more than half of the saved articles. Also no one seems to actively work on it it seems. Pretty much the same problems with Instapaper. I tried Feedly and Inoreader which kinda works I guess but they're primarily RSS readers, which I don't need. raindrop.io does extract article texts but shows them only in the Android app, in a browser it'll still open the website, also the full text search doesn't work reliability. Then there's Wallabag but that seems very Alpha and I don't want to host the service myself. Tried a bunch more which I can't remember right now.

As a temporary solution I'm now saving articles to @notesnook since I'm using that for notes anyway. Article extraction works alright but there's no way to archive notes, so it's all cluttered with articles now and I can barely find my own notes anymore.

If anyone knows of a tool that reliably does all the things mentioned above, please let me know!